Word: postally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found yet another pair of letter bombs late Monday night. Identical to the two found earlier that day, the bombs were addressed to the U.N. office of Al-Hayat and fitted into greeting card-sized envelopes. U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said all four bombs were delivered through the U.S. Postal Service and may have been at the U.N. since last week. Monday brought the bombing campaign's first casualties when one device exploded at the Al-Hayat newspaper's London headquarters; two people were injured, one seriously. At least a dozen letter bombs have been mailed to the newspaper...
...additional such letters still in the mail," agent Raymond Mislock said. "We would very much like anyone who identifies a similar piece of mail not to touch it or disturb it any way." The FBI said anyone who receives similar mail should notify their local police department or postal inspectors, or call the FBI's terrorism task force...
...morning will be miserable. In this case the problem is exacerbated by the absence of Turbo Man, a perfectly awful action figure, from available shelves and by Langston's rivalry for the elusive doll with one Myron Larabee (the comedian Sinbad), a bomb-toting mailman who has gone permanently postal. Director Brian Levant envisions their holiday world in cheerily surreal terms, and Arnold's other obstacles include an unaccountably savage reindeer, an army of corrupt Santa Clauses and a motorcycle cop who is a sort of uniformed Wile E. Coyote...
Hoyer spends much of his time and energy in Congress looking out for the concerns of his constituents, including the federal employees who make up 17% of the district's work force. On a Treasury-postal-funding bill, Hoyer won an average raise 1% higher than President Clinton had asked for. His responsiveness to constituents' wishes makes him popular, giving him an edge...
McCorkle's heavy Southern accent added a strong voice to the novel as well as to the characters. She opened with the first chapter which introduces Wallace, a postal worker who is witness to a series of letters written by a female lover to a man who has committed suicide. These letters have appeared at the post office over a number of years, and Wallace's intrigue is shared by to the reader as one wonders how the lover's plot will be revealed. McCorkle explained that these letters are continued through the novel, but not in any chronological order...